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PUBLISHED THXBE T: Siasts Bsp rf Terror eiaacej if nMS W THE lREW B 1 H 3B? Big .Beast"Was Beding From Eis Lair to be XL\ <?T an Aerican Menagerie, I&caped and Finally J ? - ?2x0 Seal ? ? ? v ? The perils of bringing a $ttm his' lair, in Idia to New j mane's, part oif a menager 36rth '"by the thrilling" expei 33te crew 'of .a German freigi1 .-*sft the' Berkenftils, c?mm ;V'^:;<fcataln JFiodfich, "which" read ? <^-ff^-^oa^attt^'few':: it irea^whtle tbb"vessei SfcS' fo?' Bermuda chat the tro< 'Fierce winds,' almost ?<a?9ugh to <.be; dignified as 'aj One, Ticked ""the 'steamer1, M sWeC "This rolling: frigh' . %oto sil<S female,of the big Mf. antf': the' '1 foi-iaer 1 ethibl. JBtger 'oy throwing his body wesden' bora -which held G&ttwitj'S v The' thterlu4es '? -a0?a? was derated to roar! \TjonId make the ?touteat hei bei >ught Port en He Into ? ?l 1 Tie lion did not like to ?roond in his cell landing 4na4 this minute and on his v Sffltt and rw1th a . rogelarHj tmk all the. bravado out S&and to get out and see trouble.'was Mr. Lion jareme effort and pushed <9ipen. and; then started to ez It was just as night was mad! ge lion ork, to , in set >nea" of sUam-1 il -by that age,' a& Ife ?ng ttrtT ?sids in JalBQt j o In j ween; that kuaii. town his it the frhich him; the au hare 0 m . give ttwiy to day and obj =)?me too distinct. An E filler was spied splicing ?fca&ro he could ifritr tho Uo .^Op of him tearing him Stoetls must b?re; been inc $Pom shock thl befft While the cussing, into the face of "*'..350up of seamaa. oaw him m '.;;<Tho first, second and :d?i;9?a to their rooms and p ^?"^^vsrs sought out the '& ifo- getting a deck above. Gierest of safety. Three japed which - did .littlo d we tt? t^n/grotrt all il.. TOhree n?tf fe ? were' t^ledirb' '^?^mf ne^pa?Hhat| . IfOBt wild. I'JEen the o I .<s& ther rigging and, reload?! S?e second officer was}? ning were dlan and 01 pieces, sous stood dead a d fled, officers re sensV in the j wero * age and e mor?_ &e^nW] 6'shots re went Wng iota ^?rv?M&yff the fusillade. Thl -first- to /m? beast in the belly, t'arowing him his knees when he iglled^ over Soy kicking for a. feJ seconds. Taggainleg his feet. the. animal ran l $sj?length of the.dee?. tumbled-over rolled- in-the soupperfi; ^up^-agaln .' . ^MK fesak toward the. deck t? which i&? ?taee? had returned. UStadtng he could not leap upon j$ee& h? Jumped'lntb' a well aha rah ifsp a ctopanlonwa-y. <whoro the sffl ?iSra stood firiBg. In the meantime loiter once more ooueht the rig ' ---Tho eudaeloue quadruped Qtfa&ef! revenge, and soon a shot in . tao-bead sent him stumbling along ? ^m, ?n?teady tegs. *5heirhe ran up to tho deck, where igafeguurds do not run along the ;'\.r8Bge, roared'mightHy, peeped into the .;'<iJea, and', straightened himself out.? Jumped' overboardv 4 He ' undoubtedly j ? ?ade a good meal for tihe sharks fol '. 'iffwing the vessel. ; j The Hliones9 heverv,^eft her open. 'c ;4age, and a brave ship carpenter ven ,+Jr Cared hear it and nailedl up the brok : obl tare which let t?q|t her foolish - '?&te. DOUBLE DATLxl TBAJTS. Wke Adoatio Const Ixaprors Servfca. la addition, to the now servtea *?? lUBBoed by ? the ? Boat hern, i the zu atfaacement now corne^ from Hr. w. -j. CraFg. Geaeral Ptacsenger Agaal <ftf thi) .Atlantic Ooaaj Line, that tfc? <teast has com pleted arras^e ?teate-^or putting oc a doubl? daity jitfBeng^eervice bet woen New Torii JSSrf, A?gustci, ^tho hei r service to bV <S8ote effective Janduiry 9, e*t he ?coaUnued through thai winter'aaaaoai 3?r. -Cralg says thA eervica and ^aQciptneat rnll be thfe best the road 3tas ever operated ffor a trataJ t? ? rtf'Mch' it pArticu|irllj' caters. An important feature o f 'the scbaanj* -?arraagenrent, which la a factor la' the handling, of '-wink ?r travel, ifl ths reduction in time cor .earned in nwk ^ttg the trip by an h1 our and a feialf "Ths schedalee are Leave New York ,m.. arrive Jn August -fdfiowlng day. Tb jag. leaves Augusta arriving la New'Tor ?Observation cars, and '? ?wty be operated on t, The'-second daily .-at fast train, Ieavisa.N 9' m., arriving 'in p.*m.'' Returning^ le p. ,m., arriving in a* 2.31 p. m.' Full Ties will be maintain 3&H th? way through follows: ty at 10:1? a |3:25 a. m. fitf train, retura t- 2 V90 p. BUV at l:50 p. m rpiler servic? is1 schedule irvloe, which It w York at 9:3* [ugnsta at 3:11 ves Augusta 4 ew York Citj ning car ser on this train >?an ? Found aRn An unknown in found ;Sunday morning "tke Southern railwaJ "Straw ^Plains;; Tenn.* J^ocket'^waa found' a e? -address' "Julian 'FishJ tSoa, 8. C., 2.2 A3htoQB Read. 's ' body was lying beeide y ? tracks near In bW vest | ^ard bearfng the: 'jurne/ 'Charles--: street," . ' fME&A WEEK ? - - ;*5?iiOUt.e I ? PLACEDOX WHEELS AND HAUL ED ACROSS PRAIRIE. ? With Basic Open. Heals Served In Hotel and Clerks Working in CourtLouse. Lamriq, S. D.. baa been put on wheels and 'moved to Winner, where, aa'the'resUlt of . a bitter county Beut war and agreement between the two towns, It has consolidated with Win*, ner and as ^ar town ceased wholly, io exist. \ ? Large store bulldlngB with their valuable contents were moved Intact. Banks, with their cash in the vaults, were put '?*/. wheels and made the trip across the prairie while the clerks continued to. work and money was received and paid out ot' c us tomerfl. / Without disturbing the offlcialsthe county court- bouse was hitched to two' of the .largest'traction-enginee ever built, and It . was dragged from Larmo to yrinner..where ft was plac ed on a foundation peviously prepar ed/for It The 'Larmo hotel, drawii by 72 teams'of horses, made the trip, without, so much as ceasing business a' slngW xfceiL' The court, boose, a Mg two story frame building,"was the first to oe moved, since It was necessary'/that the Dig' honisa bo pat in place before smaller houses blocked the way. The big traction engines were Mtehed to It, and ocrosa tho prairto ft went, tke bit engrlnoe ^tj?Idc and snorting like* Mogul Iocom?tlvsa. Tita dHftanbo was throo rfSles, end this was. covered in just two tours; So evenly was tho ''job" carried on that derks, writing a' their desks were undisturbed. After the court house and'jail were moved residences "went over' in reg ular flocks. When nightfall overtook a house which w?? >?tnc moved the structure'waV left by' taa roadside for the night and the"family noeupl ed it is usual. Then the movers bogan on the business houses, and store After ??oro was taken to Winner . without being Interfered with., Banka were removed without the monej ben>r looked* up, and deposits wert? receiv ed and cheeks paid without a halt. The big school house was taken overj.for ftitf day, crjy half , a day be ing lost by ?he students. Although the? men ln/ctodrjce of .'the^'-iangtaeEf iatarad: tov^f^rhos,^.. teachers; chIK ?teen, and/ailr this: anthorifJes. did "not care- tO'risk the eollapae of the build ing when It was occupied by so many children. ^50 for a'VS'^llfnB,t6-'''|64'3(--.j{l-jVa store filled with goods. It cost near ly 91.000 to take the court house toi the new towr and put It in the position it now occupies. ?'? 7? VlfcSBLS iOSS ? As*d Fifty-three X'eopi? Out of 1,483 Lost Li tat Tsar. . Out of a total of 6,661 persona in volved in 1,463 disasters to vessels of all classes within the escQs of Che United States life' saving service, on ly urty-threo were lost, and about seventy-four vessels were completely destroyed, according to the annual report of S. L. Kim ball, general' su perintendent of (.he service, for the fiscal year, which ended June 30 last. The next expenditures for main taining the service for the year were $2,249.375.6-8. The enactment ot f.he bill passed at the last session of Congress by the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving semriee and others of the field service and others of the field service incapacitated for doty Is urged in the report. Of the 1.646 vessels of all kinds which met with accidents, the life savers rendered service to 1.047, val ued with their "cargoes at $10.179, 280. Other succor rendered'by the life savfag service included the res cue -of 137-persons from. drowning, surgical aid to 60 persons suffering from gunshot wounds; broken Hmbs or brnlsea and the recovery of 160 bodies of persons who had met death through loo or in other" ways. Nice of thie number were suicides. 0 ? ? ? ??? PBKACHEB ACTS AS FLAGMAS. Grabs Handkerchief ead Warns Traia of Wreck. t ? ... The moment he emerged from the day coach where he was ricHng at Majspot, Tenn., late 'Friday after noon, tlev. J. A. Baylor.pastor of tho State ' Street Methodist Church. South, of Bristol, and_iormerly ot Chattanooga. instantO bi<twTTed a handkerchief and ran a half mile up ?ho track to flag any o^her trains that might be coming. Mr. Baylor, who is "one o{ the most prominent ministers In tho Holsten conference. wa? forweriy a locomotive engineer and .this was his first impulse. He was 'injured In a passenger wreck some years -ago wblle railroading and before entering the ministry. ? ? _ __. *t Chewed Up Money. After a vain search for a wallet containing 5129, which ?he bad been carrying In his hip pocket, Frank Hoover, "a butcher of Bellevista, Pa.. deciced as a forlorn hope to staught er?a bog w^tb'which had been wok jing btfore missing the* money. In- ] side tire, stomach of. the animal he discovered' his4 roll, of- bills, chewed?: into a mass with the leather of the wallet- ' . *".' OBANGBSUBG CHEAP COTTON GOODS MAKES ""HB SITUATION UN8AT . ISFACTORY TO THE MILLS.. Manufactaers Claic That With Price of Cotton so High Goods Can Not be Made Profitably. A New York . dispatch says the year closed with the cotton goodb market steady but quiet. Prices ap pear to be firm, but they offer mills no margin-for profit -on many of the staples, while cotton rules high. In manufacturing circles curtailment of production is being urged and in mercantile houses it 1b felt that pro duction is running ahead of demand for the time being. The volume of export trade with China in the last weeks of the year reached at least 10,000 bales and the market Is firm oh a basis of 6 1-4 cents for four-yard 66 by 60s. The demand for', ginghama and- fancy wash fabrics1 of? sheer i cour.tr uction holds good;! % - Staple prints have go id well and are being- delivered1 .frt?iJyV?i?r the spring trade. Bleanht-fr stssilDgp' are beld^ Arm-en a basis of -9 cents for fr u I t-of-t he-loom, but the'demand, is of a hand-to-mouth character. S Colored cottons -have- been sold fairly well oil the low grades,' but mill agents complain of a look of profit at present prices. The demand for plain eonstuctlona of fine cloths is lighter and in fancy (tood3, silks and cottons sell rather better than oither lines. Th e cotton yarn market contin ues quiet ? with- values held fairly steady. Of the 175,000 pieces of print cloths sold Fn the last Week of the year at Fall River about 75, 000 consisted of 27 in 56 by 52s for substitute count print. The mills in that city are carrying comparatively small stocks and are discussing ' the need of curtailment when January contracts begin to ex pire. EXTEND OVER FIFTEEN YEARS. Cafltoms Official Makes Statement Abont New Orteans Sugar Frond. "When1 the grand Jury now Inves tigating the'sampling of sugar at New Orleans-finishes'its work, it-will be; found that the frauds against (he G^vor^ment' there have*- oeer going" on for least fifteen 7ej(ft." "Vhls statement' was mj^ ^Friday by an official of the customs service, who . declared all the suspected frauds would bf found th the samp ling of-'sugar and in the tests which determine^ the saccharine contents upon, which lhe'taporter-:pays duty. An investigation of alleged "draw back"fraus at San Francisco Is al so imminent' - In fact, it is known thfet a preliminary Investigation has furnished evidence which leads treas ury officials to beUova that the frauds at San -Francisco will, eclipse those atNew York, which the Amer ican Sugar Refining- Comparer recent ly ordered to ??$?e for 9700,000. Evidence colledtsd by the customs Ren-Ice is said to show the Govern ment hat for years zeen paying "drawback" on Phllllpine sugar, vhich came into tie United States duty free, was used in the preserva tion of California fruit and later ex ported as sugar Imported from, Java on which duty had been pa?d. One of the officials of the treasury department Friday said: "The troubles of the sugar importers have only begun. The discoveries of the frauds have only* started." ? PEACEMAKER THE VICTIM. AaheviRe Citizen Receives Perhaps ? Fatal Wounds, With a knife blade, stuck in his right lung to a depth of foar Inches, and 8iJli protruding from the wound, John Davis, a well-known eltldftft of West* AahevHle, staggered -into his home early Friday morning and In formed his wltje that he had been cut The Injured man: did not know1 the knife was still' embedded In his lung until It was pulled out by his horrified1 wife. The stabbing result ed from an affray between the young son-of Davis'and & young man sawed SWMahon, In which the father was endeavoring to act as* peacemaker. After the catting, which Is alleged to have been done by McMahon, the Lat ter made his escape, but later ivas captured and returned to Asfceville. Davhi's condition is critical. ?? Was Playing With Gnu. Having just returned from a hunt, and while pointing the gun at each! other in a playful manner, the gun in the hands.ot Ales Donahoo was ac cidentally discharged and O. '? B. Lynch was instantly kilk-d. The en tire load Aopk effect In'the top of hisj head, which was 'literally blown off. Both boys are about 17 years of age and sons of well 'known and prosper ous farmers. The accident occurred Just over the North Carolina line, and th? coroner of Polk County held an inquest 0 * "t> <? . . ' ? Find Body of Baby. While .searching for the body of Cornelius Corbett, who was drown ed .In an heroic attempt to save tho life of a young woman who had fal len from -a -ferry boat crossing the Chattahoochee. ?River, ? searchers found ibe" J&dy of a baby." The body was lying tn a* shallot pool of water and waSj weighted down. 8.; C, TUESDAY, JANI TWO MOKE DIE World ReDflwned Aviators licet Death Iastaflu7 fey failifli M1SJIJDIB ClJfRRENTS Molsant, at New Orleans, Falls Han dreds of Feet and Has His Neck Broken?-Horsey, at Los Angeles, is Dashed to; Earth in Aeroplane and Crasbei? by the Machine, John B. Mciaant and Arch Hoxsey, aviators ertriwrdlnary, were; killed Saturday. Both fell , out of the treacherous Siir: currents with their machlDres?^neither from a vast height?and - - Molsont'e - remaining minutes of lllfe.wera so few as to count as naui.hfc Hoxsey traa killed instantly.' 4 'M ????*. ? '? Moisant- mut hfs death at 3.65 a. m.Y attempting to alight in a field a few miles -from New Orleans, ? La. Hoxsey, who went into- the air-early in' the afternoon') at Los Angeles, Cal., lay-at 2:12 p. m.'a crushed, life leas mass 'n view of the thousands who were watching the aviation tournament, 'i ThuB the last day off 1910, in bringing the total number of deaths of aviators to thirty, capped the Hat with two of the most illiiBtriouB of those airmen who have been writing the history of aviation in the shies of two continents. Molsant, a Chlcagoan by birth, af ter an adventurous life in Central America, became Interested in avia tion in France less than a year ago. After soaring Into public-recognition by his plucky bight from Paris across! the English Channel to London, with a passenger,, Moisaut's fearlessness, and re-" usefulness wero exhibited frequently. Finding himself without a machine, be purchased one from a friend for $10,000 and within ten minutes, starting on his winning flight from Belmont Park, N. Y., around the Statue of Liberty, win ning a prize of SI O,;O0O. Today a sudden pun* of wind caught him within 500 feet of the earth, turned his machine over and a broken neck terminated his ca reer. Arch".Hoxaerri:after.-V'ye{?r of uni form Buccja|swlth the Wright aero planes, bargained a name for dar ing and competence in the air. Only within the week he had set a new world's altitude record of 11,474 feet, and then to show his contempt for the earth, had sailed nsajestleally more than 4,000 feet above Mount Wilson. Today he ran afoul of the same kind of bolting, treacherous wind when some 500 feet from the earth, and '?< minute later a horrified crowd,' aroused from its shock, woe rijahlng mudly to where a broken mass of humanity lay beneath a'tom bit of canvcis and some broken ?pars. Both met death In almost the samt? manner. Each machine was headed for the earth and suddenly seemed to stop, hover In the air, then "turn over on to Its nose," and dive heaa iong to th<9 earth?and to destruc tion. Molsant'n aeroplane was a Blerlot monoplane, and In addition to the heavy engine In front of the main planes, he had fastened a tank hold ing 35 gallons of gasoline. Aviation experts believe a sudden puff of wind Btopped his machine fieud in the air and the heavy weight ahead dragged the light framework behind it, flip ping the then useless rear elevator. From his position partly back of the main planes, Molsant was flipped out, clear of the machine, and struck the ground on his heul, breaking his neck.' He died on a fiat car upon which he was being rushed to New Orleans. Horsey, likewise 1 wee returning from;a journey Into the clouds, he was within five hundred feet of the earth and cheers were going up to meet the conquorer of' the highe'r air, when his machine seemed' to stop, shudder and whirl over and over to the ground. As in the morning's tragedy; the rear elevator, rendered useless when' the momentum was gone, flipped around, helpless to aid the fated machine. Hoxsey vainly endeavored to right his era ft by warping the main planes and by use of the rudder. Vain attempts, these.) for before sufficient momentum was gamed the frail structure was crum ; plod upon the earth, the heavy en gine being torn loose. Only a few fanners and aids saw Molsant hurled to his death, but Hoxsey's end Cft? beforo the horri fied gaze of th.^aands who had come out in the pleasant afternoon to watch the birdmen darting here and there through the air. Tho dav's pleasure ended when an announcer, sadly lifting hie mega phone, droned out the message: ? ? ?'Arrfh Hoxsey has been killed. There will be no more flying today." Mrs. C. M. Hoxsey, of Pasadena, Cal., missed by a mere accident see ing her .?on meet his death. She had arranged to lake her first areoplnnt ride with her son today. Some do tall of importance In .her household detained her and word of tho acci dent was taken to her by Roy Kna benshne and Thomas Jackson, of the Wright Company. Cold Wave Coming. The weather bureau at Columbia reports that a sudden change for colder weather is to be expected. UBY. 3, 1911. TOLL OF THE MOBS ITJPTY ? SEVEN PEOPLE WERE LYNCHED THE YEAR PAST. Florida, Georgia, AJabama, Arkansas and Texas Led hi This Class of Vi olent Deaths. Only 67 lynchirgs were recorded in the United States In 1910, a much e mailer number than in almost any previous year in the last 16. In 19 09 the total was 70 and in 1908 it was (15. A31 but five of the 57 cases of lynching In 1910 were of negroes, und ten of these cases were those in which the charge against the1 victim was assault on white women or girls. !In 11 of the remaining number the charge was attempted criminal as uault In the five cases of white :inen; four were for murder and the other for aiding and abetting In a f?ll delivery.. Several of the cases in which negroes were lynched were based upon the murder, or alleged murder'of. white women in which, the. auesthon of 'assault''to' Implied. ' * * As In previous years?nearly air the iynehlnge were Iis 'Southern states, Plodda and Georgia having* ten each,' Alabama and Arkansas eight each, Texas six. The only lynching In the North 'occurred l:a' Ohio, the victim being Carl Etheriiigton, and agent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon league, who met <faath tit the hands of a too* la Newark following; als Imprisonment ft Jail on a ehargo of bavins murder ed o saloonkeeper while making ? raid on an alleged blind tigar. Oco man has been convicted of having pa tic! pa ted in thin lynching and givtn a 20 years prlsoti sentence. Following is the record for 1910 by Btates: Alabama, eight negroes; !Arkansas, eight negroes; Florida, ;eight negroes and two whites; Oeor 'gia, ten negroes; Louisiana, one jwhite man; Mississippi, five negroes; Missouri, three negroes; North Caro lina, one negro; Ohio, one white man; Oklahoma,,. one negro; South Carolina, one negro; .Tennessee, two negroes; Texas, four negroes and two whites. ? Of the five whites lynched, two were Italians, who were lynched In Florida. They were charged with murder and with Inciting the slots during the strike of cigarmakers in Tampa, Another of'the white viltiw's was a Mexican ( who was shot and burned at the stake near the Texas .bbrderj-iollowini-f-bis confession that he had mordered a white woman. Of the 52 negro victims, two were wo men.' ? In many of the cases the lynch ings followed- the arrest or conviction of the victims on the charges made against them. In other eases the victime met death while endeavoring to escape from parsulng posses. In. two, cases the negro victims were lynched by mobs composed of mem ber* of their own race. In almost every case t ho victim. was aummarlly hanged or shot without -burning at the states, ageh as accompanied these1 acts of summary vengeance In for mer yearn. ? STEffBS SOME HELP. Airfel Treatment of a Colored Girl by a Fiend. The Columbia Record says a small negro girl, who is twelve years of age, lies in a critical condition at the hospital off Dr. Wi C. Rhodes, corner of Washington and Park St. Her left leg Is shattered from the knee to the ankle as the result of a load of shot fired, so she saye, by a negro boy, Elijah WUliame. The shooting occuVfed at the Spigner place about eight miles dis tant from the city, on Friday. Ac cording to her version of the affair she was shot because ehe refused to obey the boy whom she met In a dense wood as she and a female rela tive were returning home from a neighbor's. She says after he hod shot her he directed bis demands toward the other girl; who through fear of the consequences go forcefully illustrat ed before bei eyes, yielded. The girl tells a ? startling story, but her ac count of the shooting and the other crime was related In a coberant man ner. She repeats the story every now and then to the attendant at the hospital. 1 The jail record of prisoners does no show' that "Elijah Williams" has been arrested. It was reported sev eral days ago that an arrest had been made, but if such was the case the boy gave the ooastable a name oth er than the one by which he was known in the neighborhood. Such a fiend as WUliamB should be Introduc ed to some hemp as quickly as possi ble. Smuggle Ohinexe Sixteen Chinamen, concealed in a box cut, were arrested at Ysleta. Tex. this week, and two Amerlcons, charged with attemptJng to Bwuggle them into the United States, were al so taken into custody. The car had been lined around the Hides with bal ed hay, leaving a space in the center of the car in which the. I'oreienors were con<"*?aWI ? Beats Off Negro. At Chicago Miss Ellen K. MJIler stroin, a nineteen-year-old girl, re sisted a neco who attacked her last evening in North Fiftieth avanue. After a struggle in which the young woman returned the negro's blows, scratching and kicking him, be knocked her down, ran through an I alley ond escaped. TOLL OF AIR SHIPS ? WHAT THE SCIENCE OF AVIA TIOIV HAS COST IN LIVES. Every Country Represented In. che List of Those Who Died in Efforts to Advance the Sicience. They have nulled the aviation bal ance sheet f the season just end ed. One side is bordered with gold. (Sixty-nine heroes of the air have won medals and thousands of dol lars In cash. The other side is pip ed with black. Twenty-nine have paid the final price of the hero busi ness. On the wide-stretched wigs of mot or-pushed, man-built birds, Intrepid flyers have hung the gay emblem" of achievement 11,000 feet up in cloud land. Others, reaching; out for the' stars,'have'ridden aloft to the music' of waving kerchiefs and to a fate which j'as the foneral wreath for its finality; , Everywhere there has been striv ing > succeeding and striving, and dy 3ns .until the Bide of the aviation sheet'which la'piped with black bears these ?names: ?'? ? Lefebore,'Ferber, Bossi, Hauvetti Micheiln, Robl, Bpeyer, Haas, Rolls, Daniel Kinet, Nicholas Knet," Maas dydk, Polllot. Madiot, Saghittl, John stone, Fernandez,' Delagrange, Lo ?Blon, Josely, :' W?chter, Plochwan, Matiewitch; W?ldern, Pasca, Vivaldi, Von Pltter. Hamilton, Chavia, Blah chard, Mente. ? Every country has offered its man ?some two or three; you may tell by the names. Some have died leaving a word or two- an maybe a figure in the record by wach they may be re membered when the list has grown larger. Some have died as from a tumble from a housetop?a mean taking off when you consider that the setting is bounded only by track less space. Chavez died thus?hear the earth, after he had marched over the Alps. And some have died with department orders signed and countersigned thrust in their belts, as men who serve the guns.or skirmish fathfcrhs deep under the sea in steel bottles called submarines have done before how1. Fifteen months ago the season for flying and dying as a double attrac tion had its forma! Introduction at Rh o im sv the a no leh t cl ty of th o pla ins where the kings of France were wont to go to fit themselves with crowns. The affair of Rheims was called a meet, a word taken from the vocab ualry of the foxhunt and .bicycle riding. . .., - . . - - In territory the list is both brood and long. Meets, with their cash prizes and their life prizes,-became popular. In the two lists to which the names o? aviators may be added; the average Is one dead to every three living. The gresteot amount of money.any aviatcr has won, the fig ures being taken from his published acroont?, Is 532,00 7. Paulban got that. Only 25 have won more than' 110,000. ?| PLANTERS SUFFER GREATLY. Six MflUoa Dollars is the Annual; Damagpfi to Peach Growers. The fearful ravages of pests on ag riculture, entailing many millions of dollars' loss, arc outlined in a state ment which Acting Chief Powell, of the bureau, of plant industry, has submitted to the House committee on agriculture in connection with the agricultural bill which the commttee reported Monday.;: ' Mr. Powell says that through the use of a sulphur spray, the Eastern peach business has been made stable for the first time. He Bays that the estimated loss annually from brown rot on peaches is $5,000,000 and from peach scab-31,000.000, virtual ly all of which loss might be saved by proper Bpraying'of orchards. ? Blister rust on white-pine is esti mated to cause losses of SI,008,000 annually and other plants show near vy losses from disease and insets. Investigation of the cotton indus try in Egypt has Indicated that the mixing of Hindu cotton with - the Egptiaa cotton has entailed a loss of $10,000.000 a year and that strains of the Egyptian cotton can he bred in the Egyptian cotton can be bred in the United States which will not show the conditions that cause these enormous loesea In Egypt. 0 ? - High Living at Low Cost. The Newberry Observer Bays: "Mr. B. F. Mills butchered two hogs on Thursday that weighed 610 and 320 pounds. They were tho Poland China breed and were 18 months old. He raised them from pigs, and they did not cost him half as much as if he had boug^ tbem from Tennesse?. The solution of the high coat of liv ing la that farmers raise their own bog and hominy, and enough besides to sell to their neighbors, the town people. More and more of them ars doing this tost bv ypar. ? Dynamite Explosion. -An explosion of dynamite at the engine house of No. 13 mine of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company, near Easley, Ala., Friday afternoon killed Joe C*3wcll, engi neer, and Will Hunter, fireman, and an unknown negro. A second ne gro was badly injured. The negro killed had brought some frozen dyna mite from the mine tunnel to thaw it out in the engine house. TWO CENTS PEB COPY TOOK POISON I New York Banker Charged Wits Crtae Tries to; Kill Himself WHILE GOING TO COURT Charged With Wrecking the Nort& era Bank of New York, the Pris oner Collapses Before ReacM-qg 2S the Court Room Where he Was }?> . '. r ?: ;\"V '?- ??' ? 1 > ' v 1 ? - ? i< <iV*."' Have Been Arraigned, . Joseph Robin, who wrecked fius ?. ? Northern Bank of, .Ne;jr ? To rjfc w h fie ? at ?b he attempted to kill himself $ agabs ?i on Friday.. With head-erect, saoul?-'?? - ere, and sy-s levelled-at the bteeor of eameras trained on him, Joaejfc> ? O. Robin, - the - indicted banker, etofly. ?;? ? ed from hio sister's home to face: 6?-.. raignment, calm- in the kaowlei(6B that'he hs.d swallowed a dozen ???h:; lets of hyo&cin, the aubtle and dc2^5jr alkaloid, with whichrJJr: Crippcn iaS?-. . ed his wife, Belle: Blmore. He ?6?r - lapsed, before he could be taken. S?he/, Court, with the ezclamatlttn:. ltia dead man; I've taken poison ftflb lieta." -- - Tho ease was postponed la greatest excitement, a stomachyI*?*,? was hurriedly brought into play *si?,, the sick man was carried first U* Qcv prieon hospital, adjacent, and later jea Bellevue, where he lies in the priflDtt ward. No charge of attempted coV clde is entered agalnit him, and ttjs I thought j he will recover, althoa^ the action of hyoscin is elow, atf9 much will depend on his vitality. The time at which Robin took tfca drug 1b approxlately fixed by the tes timony of Dr. Austin Flint, retainers for Robin by William Travers Je? ome, his counsel; Dr. Louisa RotSc ovitch, his sister, and t:?o detectives', from the district attorney's ?fitaK who rode with Him from his. sister house to the Crlmmal Court bu31di$s Dr. Flint told the Court that as ly as he could judge from the toms, the poiton had been, in Robteftf I system about three-quarters on'?a I hour' when he collapsed, ' The. two detectives, were posttte their prisoner, swallowed nothing Cos . the way te Court, Dr. Robinovttch> said her brother'was in the habit A? taking hyoscin in' small doses, is* | counteract the effects'of morphtaa, which he used to deaden the stat>- . ing pa*es by which g^Sl stones majkar. themselves known. She kept th&tprife. ? in her house and oho thought her I brother swallowed twelve tablets, St Bellevue the examining surgeons f? Jtimated that Robin had taken abcafi I one-tenth of a grain. Robin seemed in good health, fttft urday morning, 'better than at oJcr time since hie troubles commenwdiSL. The first sign of illness was when &2> staggered, on stepping from hie ?? tomoblle to the Criminal Court buth? Ing. In the elevator, he weakened ??> rapidly -that the iietentives had $r> i lift him to a couch. There he'ssntbc Sfito uneonscieuB&ess and was not. t&~ vlved until the Btdrcaoh pump IesB been worked vigcnfiDJily. Its preatj* ' use undoubtedly saved his life. Oatnlde the corridors of the G* mlnal Court building fairly hummed with excitement, but in the Court 6? General Sees ions Itself Judge Crata - was I transacting, business as usual ? when Wm. T. Jerome stepped" rapidXy down the aisle. . . "Your Honor," he began, htrrrtefc | ly. "T am here in the Robin case, it I appears that the defendant has tafitea a drug. He cannot be stimulct? j An ambulance has been called one? surgeons are now pumping out ES? stomach. The circumstances are SB avoidable." On information that the pTis*%er could not possibly be o.-ralgned, 'ttA case was postponed until the recefijfe of further advices to Robin's oaneST tlon. - ?' ?? ? ; Hyoscin is described th the text books -as an alkaloid of henbane sjnB i In Its action a cerebral and spinn? sendatlve." Cases ore recorded t? which a dozen tablets of 1-2 5th gala-, applied to the membranes of the eyes have produced several general toSie I symptoms. Robin's frustrated attempt leaves I the question of his Insanity s?d Sai len. There was no further developing!* Jta connection with either the Ncfcn ern Bank of New York or the Wash ington Savings Bank, both of whlHh I are In the bonds of the State banklns I department, but the (State depart meet of insurance took over the af fairs of the TitU and Guarantee [ Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and "a large force of accountants are WL work on tho ledgers of the many "fis tewoven concerns which Robin $tth moled. >. Cleaned Fp Family. At Baltimore, Md., as a climax ia a aeries of hitter quarrels betwee* Wm. C. Stridden and his wife, tie former Friday shot and killed , tl?& latter and his 19-year-oM stepdaoghi er, Eula Kile. Strickles, who was employed as a fireman at a power house, then fired a bullet fate his own t'?mn'? > Kills Small Child. At Bristol. Tenn., Mathew Tlssg. aged 8 years, was fatally shot Frtd^F . night by Robert Hill, an old\nMfc. whom be bad been persistently term ing. The ball lodged near the ohll?Sa heart and he died Saturday. HQS wa? arrested. " i**6 .